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Eurostopodus argus (Spotted Nightjar)

Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted nightjar (Eurostopodus argus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It inhabits much of mainland Australia and has also been found in several Indonesian islands.Its natural habitats are open forests and woodlands, scrub, spinifex and tussock grassland, savannah woodland and mangroves
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.7064
EDGE Score: 2.75407
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  98 grams
Female Weight [1]  91 grams
Male Weight [1]  105 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.4 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Mating Display [4]  Ground display
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coorong National Park II 121235 South Australia, Australia
Currawinya Lakes National Park II 372252 Queensland, Australia
Grampians National Park II 416373 Victoria, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0